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#TAConference
Sunday 24 October 2021, 10.00am - 3.30pm
Tutor Assessor Conference
A free conference for Tutor Assessors
Tutor Assessors are invited to join this year’s Tutor Assessor Conference online, including a mixture of workshops, presentations and networking sessions set to inspire and share best practice.
All sessions will be live streamed, with the chance to interact and ask questions.
10:00 – 11.25
Session 1: Introduction and Keynote
Watch live on YouTube
10:00 – 10:15
Get involved with #YoungSTEMLeaderWeek
Jamie Menzies, SSERC
10:15 - 10:25
Message from Jamie Hepburn MSP
Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training
10:25 - 11:25
Keynote workshop:
Embedding equity and creativity into interdisciplinary STEM approaches
Lewis Hou, Science Ceilidh
11:30 – 12:30
Session 2: Discovering Digital
Watch live on YouTube
11:30 – 11:35
STEM in Your Seat:
An activity led by the YSLs fromRosebank Primary School
11:35 – 11:55
Virtual YSLP in Lockdown
Sarah Nicoll, North Ayrshire Council Family Learning Team
11:55 – 12:10
On-screen STEM success
Bethany Jamieson, My Online Schooling
12:10 - 12:25
Delivering YSLP Digitally
Kristen Petrie, Dunnikier Primary School
12:25 - 12:30
Q&A/Panel Discussion
13:00 – 13:45
Session 3: Leading Learning
Watch live on YouTube
13:00 – 13:05
STEM in your seat:
An activity led by the YSLs of Braes High School
13:05 – 13:20
YSLP and the National 4 Science Curriculum
Daniel McArdle, Rosshall Academy/St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School
13:20 – 13:35
STEMarnocks – The YSLP across the four contexts
for learning
Anita Webster, St Marnock’s Primary School
13:35 – 13:40
Discovery to BGE
Belinda Cook, Cedarbank School
13:40 - 13:45
Q&A/Panel Discussion
13:50 – 14:30
Session 4: Creating Community
Watch live on YouTube
13:50 – 14:05
Online resources: Finding activities for YSLs to lead
Amy Dixon, SSERC
An overview of websites that can be used to give YSLs ideas for activities they could lead.
14:05 – 14:15
Embedding YSLP in Community Learning and Development
Claire McGinley, SSERC
14:15 – 14:25
A whole school STEM journey
Eileen MacLeod, Charleston Academy
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A/Panel Discussion
14:30 - 14:45
Plenary Session – Where next?
Jamie Menzies, SSERC
Join on Zoom or watch live on YouTube